This is the biggest one yet. Microsoft's professional extortion campaign - the third side of the same triangle it shares with Apple and Oracle - has finally hit Samsung. The two companies have signed a patent licensing agreement concerning Samsung's use of Android, in which a rumoured fee of $15 (!) per device will flow from Seoul to Redmond. Not entirely coincidentally, that's about the price of a Windows Phone 7 license.

Voting has nothing to do with anything here. Good job using solar energy though. However, do you use a gas powered car? Do you use grid electricity to any degree? Do you work and pay taxes? The list of questions, whose answers would easily contradict your supposed deep concern for where your money goes, can go on forever. Rather than waste time doing that I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that you participate in putting money in the hands of bad people and you likely aren't ignorant to that fact.

Got any other obvious and irrelevant observations to make? 'The sky is blue', 'piss is yellow', that kind of stuff?

That depends, are you going to continue to play dumb? This is the third time you've been told now -- there are plenty of worthy causes to spend your time on, go find one or a few. Unless you really enjoy looking like a fool that whines every time "Microsoft" is part of a discussion.